The Congo: Death of a Rebel

In the bizarre, rebellion-plagued history
of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the
bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers
of independence"the central governmentand within months led
his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu
province in the interior.

Mulele's men, who called themselves the Jeunesse, were fired by a
strange mixture of leftist dogma and African magic, which they used
time and again to put the superstitious Congolese National Army to
flight. With shouts of Mulele mai (Water of Mulele), they threw
themselves into battle, convinced...